Favorite Healthy Sweet Potato Recipes

I love savory dishes with sweet potatoes for an occasional treat and here are my Favorite Healthy Sweet Potato Recipes! If sweet potatoes are a carb splurge for you, check my suggestions for making many of these lower in carbs! Use the Recipe Round-Ups to find more round-ups like this one.

For years I was one of those people who would wrinkle their nose up at the mere mention of sweet potatoes (or yams as they are often mistakenly called.) I didn’t think I’d ever like them, but then I tried Spicy Sweet Potato Fries and had a sweet potato epiphany. I realized that what I didn’t like was those overly-sweet dishes with sweet potatoes, the ones that so many people serve for Thanksgiving.

Since then I’ve experimented with different ways to prepare savory sweet potatoes and now sweet potatoes are something I really like. Of course they aren’t super low in carbs, so they’re an occasional treat for me, but here are my Favorite Healthy Sweet Potato Recipes. And many of these recipes can be made lower in carbs by using less sweet potatoes and more of the low-carb ingredients, so notice those tips in this post.

And even if you’re one of the people who likes those marshmallow-topped holiday sweet potato dishes, I bet some of my favorite recipes for sweet potatoes for might be things you’d like to add to your sweet potato options. To get any of the recipes in this post, just click the recipe title under the photo; enjoy!

Paleo Turkey Sweet Potato Chiliis delicious and if you don’t care about Paleo just think of it as chili with no processed ingredients. And of course you can make this lower in carbs with more turkey (or ground beef) and less sweet potatoes!

If you’re preparing Thanksgiving dinner for a crowd you may like the appeal of these easy and tasty Spicy CrockPot Sweet Potatoes, cooked entirely in the slow cooker!

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